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U.S. / NEWS Mon Mar 10, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- The flow of blood may be ebbing, but the flood of money into the Iraq war is steadily rising, new analyses show. In 2008, its sixth year, the war will cost approximately $12 billion a month, triple the "burn" rate of its earliest years, Nobel Prize-win.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:08am neoform

CNN -- For 11 years, Pedro Zapeta, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, lived his version of the American dream in Stuart, Florida: washing dishes and living frugally to bring money back to his home country. Two years ago, Zapeta was ready to return to Guate.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Mar 23, 2007 @ 6:17pm neoform

CBS News -- n the old days, banks lent money to people they were confident would pay them back. No more. These days, banks search for people who cannot pay them back and lend them money anyhow. These unsecured loans come in the form of credit cards. And the banks.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 8:31am neoform

Yahoo News -- In the neighborhood President Bush visited right after Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government gave $84.5 million to more than 10,000 households. But Census figures show fewer than 8,000 homes existed there at the time... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 25, 2007 @ 12:07pm neoform

Daily Mail -- A man who was fed up with paying massive bank charges decided to give one of the high street giants a taste of its own medicine... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Fri Jan 5, 2007 @ 10:27pm neoform

New York Magazine -- A couple of weeks back, out in Omaha, I happened to share a ride to the airport with a pair of United pilots. Both were classics of the type—trim, square-jawed, silver-haired, twangy-voiced white men, one wearing a leather jacket. Sam Shepard or Paul Ne.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Oct 19, 2006 @ 12:26am neoform

Washington Post -- Immigrant workers are sending more money than ever to their families in Latin America, but two new studies show that only a small portion of the billions of dollars directed there has gone to economic development... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 23, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- Watanabe, a lower house lawmaker who also oversees economic and administrative reforms, appeared convinced the U.S. government would use public money. He said that decision may not come during the presidential election because of the inevitable question a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Sep 22, 2007 @ 10:00pm neoform

Christian Science Monitor -- Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today's population, that is more than $5,700 per person. This is an estimate by Thomas Stauffer, a consulting economist in Washington. For decades, his analyses of the Mid.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Aug 5, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

Washington Post -- Home buyers again need their own money to close a deal. Lenders faced with growing piles of bad loans, even to borrowers once considered good credit risks, have clamped down on the no-money-down mortgage. The abrupt shift threatens to dash the hopes of.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 3, 2007 @ 12:48am neoform

CNN -- Nearly a quarter of the nation's roughly 600,000 major bridges carry more traffic than they were designed to bear, according to reports based on federal government data. Experts said Thursday that the problem stems from a lack of money and leadership... Read More

U.S. / OPINION Mon Jul 23, 2007 @ 6:26am neoform

Sun Times -- The Rev. Mark Sorvillo loved taking his parish's money and spending it on himself. Trips to Rome, Venice, Paris. And $900 meals at New York restaurants. In 1999, Sorvillo found someone else to lavish his parishioners' collection-plate donations on -- a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 20, 2007 @ 7:13pm neoform

CNN -- A nurse was convicted Friday of killing her husband with paralyzing drugs and setting fire to their house to claim the insurance money. Michelle Michael, 35, had taken the stand in her own defense and denied killing James Michael. Authorities determine.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 4:52pm neoform

FOX News -- An Illinois woman has been sentenced to 65 months in prison for taking $10,000 in hush money from the man who sexually molested her severely disabled daughter. The Chicago Tribune reports that the 33-year-old woman — whose name is not being published.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 11, 2007 @ 1:20am neoform

FOX News -- Olympian Steve Riddick was convicted Thursday of conspiracy, bank fraud and money laundering in a scheme with others to steal money from banks by cashing counterfeit checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Riddick left the courtroom in a hurry, te.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 15, 2007 @ 3:20am neoform

USA Today -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., entered the second quarter of the year with half the cash in the bank compared to his two main rivals for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, a significant challenge for a candidate who is trying to put some luster b.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Apr 15, 2007 @ 3:13am neoform

Washington Post -- Hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money designated for community projects in Prince George's County have gone to organizations directly connected to the people doling out the money or with ties to County Executive Jack B. Johnson, according to rec.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Apr 4, 2007 @ 10:16pm neoform

Denver Post -- Mayor John Hickenlooper has raised a heroic amount of private money to help make Denver a better and more hopeful place to live. For that, he deserves plaudits. However, amid the $104 million collected, most of it to help poor children go to college.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 27, 2007 @ 12:31am neoform

SF Gate -- A former Treasury Department employee was sentenced to nine months in federal prison Monday for stealing more than $67,000 in uncut sheets of $100 bills that he tried to launder through casino slot machines. David C. Faison, 56, was also ordered to pay.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 8, 2007 @ 10:30am mrmdc

CBS News -- A state judge has ordered O.J. Simpson to stop spending money he may have received for his unpublished book, "If I Did It," about the slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman... Read More